Low attendance of preschool children in government clinics in a rural community.

IT is found that the attendance of preschool children aged one to six years is generally unsatisfactory in government clinics in Malaysia, compared to that of infants. Reports on Maternal and Child Health Services in various States of Malaysia (1979) showed that in 1978 the attendance of children aged one to four years ranged from 4.5% to 18% in all the States in Peninsular Malaysia except in Me1aka and Perlis where it was 60% and 32% respectively. Whereas in the same year attendance of infants under the age of one year ranged from 75% to 100% in all the States.. This study shows the reasons why attendance of preschool children aged one to six years from a rural community is low in government clinics.